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  • Mar 21, 2014, 02:37 AM
    paraclete
    Yes sure use the drivers licence, passport or whatever other photo id might be about but don't add another tier of regulation. I know some people might not have photo id, like they may need some other form of id to establish bona fides but the process shouldn't be made difficult, and simple photo and stat. declaration if no other means can be established The right to vote must be upheld over the need to regulate
  • Mar 21, 2014, 04:31 AM
    tomder55
    agreed . However ,even those common sense provisions are opposed by the Dems. The only conclusion I can draw is that they prefer to overlook voter fraud . Could it be because they benefit when voting districts report over 100% participation ;or when trunk loads of absentee ballots suddenly appear during close election recounts ?
  • Mar 21, 2014, 04:52 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    your press must be a little rabid over there, comes from being too close to the centres of power

    I'd call it a lot more more than being a little bit rabid... its more like being just a little bit dead... or a little bit pregnant.

    In fact I don't know how they have the guts to call themselves journalists its so bad.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 05:01 AM
    tomder55
    yesterday it was revealed that before the emperor's press sec ,Jay Carney answers questions ,journalists submit the questions in writing .... Sometimes the WH prints his responses for them before the Q&A sessions begin. They are poodles . They so fear retaliation from this adm that they willingly distort the news ,slanting it in favor of the emperor ;or just not reporting it at all.

    How else can the 1st Lady (the new Evita ) take her rainbow tour to China ,and not have ANY US PRESS accompany her ? Don't give me the bs that this is a vacation. She is going to meet with her counterpart ;and the US taxpayer is paying for the trip.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 02:04 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    trunk loads of absentee ballots
    we are getting a little emotive here Tom arn't we. what I think you are saying is the counting process isn't properly supervised
  • Mar 21, 2014, 02:13 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    we are getting a little emotive here Tom arn't we. what I think you are saying is the counting process isn't properly supervised

    Actually he's not kidding... it happened when Al Frankan was losing his recount... when Surprise a trunkload of ballots from a Democrat officials car is found? No control what so ever of ballots after they are cast apparently... and absolutely no questioning when they "turn up " just when needed and as needed.

    Happened in lots of other places too.

    Same people sell Oceanfront Property in Kansas too.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 02:54 PM
    paraclete
    let's be clear a truckload does not fit in a car so we are saying a significant quantity as I was saying the process is not properly supervised. You see, living in a place with a sophisticated electoral system, I cannot comprehend the level of corruption apparently associated with your electoral system. If you have a system where votes can be withheld or introduced into the count then you can never be certain of anything
  • Mar 21, 2014, 04:08 PM
    tomder55
    what I meant was that absentee ballots fortuitously were found in a Dem poll worker's car trunk and helped Franken win a Senate seat. and yes I wrote "trunk load " not 'truck load'.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 04:17 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    what I meant was that absentee ballots fortuitously were found in a Dem poll worker's car trunk and helped Franken win a Senate seat. and yes I wrote "trunk load " not 'truck load'.

    What if those ballots had helped the Repub candidate win?
  • Mar 21, 2014, 04:34 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    What if those ballots had helped the Repub candidate win?

    Then you would have read about it every day in every newspaper in the country for the rest of the term.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 04:34 PM
    Catsmine
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    What if those ballots had helped the Repub candidate win?

    Republican, Democrat, Human, whatever. Election fraud is election fraud. It happens all over. "True the Vote" is documenting new cases every week. True The Vote
  • Mar 21, 2014, 05:34 PM
    paraclete
    I can offer only one word; Integrity, if you cannot ensure that, you got nothing
  • Mar 21, 2014, 05:40 PM
    Catsmine
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    I can offer only one word; Integrity, if you cannot ensure that, you got nothing

    You said "integrity" when talking about politicians. BWAHAHAHaHahahahaha!
  • Mar 21, 2014, 05:58 PM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    What if those ballots had helped the Repub candidate win?

    What if ? I'd still be in favor of voter id laws.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 05:59 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    What if ? I'd still be in favor of voter id laws.

    I am too. Just don't demand them two weeks before an election.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 06:16 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Catsmine View Post
    You said "integrity" when talking about politicians. BWAHAHAHaHahahahaha!

    No I said Integrity when talking about the electoral process, which isn't about politics. You see this is where our attitudes diverge. presenting your policies, etc to the people in order to be elected is politics, providing a secure electoral system so that votes can be recorded and counted is government. The two are different and must have seperate administrations. You don't allow don't allow the politicians to have control of the judicial process why would you allow them to have control of the electoral process, but allowing local officials to tamper with the electoral process is corrupt
  • Mar 21, 2014, 07:35 PM
    talaniman
    It would take a constitutional amendment to remove the right of each of the 50 states to run their own states election rules. But SCOTUS or the federal court can rule them UNconstitutional.

    So yeah state politicians run their election process.
  • Mar 21, 2014, 08:16 PM
    paraclete
    I feel very sad for you, however a state running a process can still have integrity if properly administered but for the sake of order and good government they should align and uniformly apply the rules. However as you are over governed, even at a local level, not much chance of that. You see we long ago dealt with such problems and our electoral office even oversees Union elections. Once you understand that a process can be corrupted you have to act to correct it
  • Mar 22, 2014, 02:16 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    as you are over governed,
    where did I hear that before ? Oh yeah .I've been saying that.
    Tal ,Clete's comment has nothing to do with the federalist system . You can have integrity in the process even when 50 states administer their own elections . You just have to want it . The Dems don't .
  • Mar 22, 2014, 04:05 AM
    talaniman
    I won't agree with that as usual Tom, but when you affect the voting rights of so many while trying to prevent so few, I just think there is a better way. I have been saying for a while I am for a national ID program.

    At least have a process that can pass the legal definition of FAIR. But that's not your real goal at all, and everybody knows it.
  • Mar 22, 2014, 04:18 AM
    Catsmine
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    But that's not your real goal at all, and everybody knows it.

    Spin a little harder and you get pretty colors from the pinwheel.
  • Mar 22, 2014, 04:19 AM
    tomder55
    I'd sign up for a national id in a second. Now if we had that ;would you libs have objections to producing it at the polls ? I think you would . Our solution in lieu of a national id is a variety of options .The only requirement being that it is a photo id. Evidently that is allegedly too burdensome for people who use them routinely in their daily affairs....which of course is nonsense. The only conclusion I can come to is that you pay lip service to "fair " . In reality you are content with a flawed system that appears to be rigged to allow the ineligible to vote for their favorite Dem.
  • Mar 22, 2014, 05:14 AM
    talaniman
    All ineligible voters are democrats? Amazing that's all you look for. Or all you find. Many links have been provided documenting in their own words about the agenda, and shenanigans of republicans election agendas.

    But I guess its easier to ignore your own pimples and flaws and point out everyone else's. We do need to tighten up the ship, ALL OF US.
  • Mar 22, 2014, 05:24 AM
    paraclete
    your Obamacare is going to create a quasi national identity program, it is a short step from there if you have the will to do it
  • Mar 22, 2014, 07:06 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    All ineligible voters are democrats? Amazing that's all you look for. Or all you find. Many links have been provided documenting in their own words about the agenda, and shenanigans of republicans election agendas.

    But I guess its easier to ignore your own pimples and flaws and point out everyone else's. We do need to tighten up the ship, ALL OF US.

    I don't care who they vote for .If they are ineligible ,they shouldn't be voting ..period. If I give you the benefit of the doubt ,then I say your side not only defends the status quo ,but encourages such behavior with things like same day registration and with aggressively opposing any and ALL efforts to ensure the integrity of the franchise. ....going so far as accepting bribes to oppose voter id laws.
    Kane shut down sting that snared Phila. officials - Philly.com

    (yeah I know ... move on ...nothing there ....even though hundreds of hours of tape prove that the Dem officials took bribes ;the PA Att General will not press charges ...and we know Eric Holder won't lift a finger to do his job either )
  • Mar 24, 2014, 05:06 AM
    paraclete
    look; if something illegal has been done; prosecute, you are the most litegious society on Earth, surely you can do that, if the law doesn't exist or it is inadequate; correct it. You might have to wait a few years, but do it anyway. Surely you can have one of those Senate witchhunts, even years later, and get the job done, but right now you have bigger fish to fry, you can't even find MH370, the chinese have beaten you to it, a portent of things to come. You have the technology and yet, what have you offered? I expect that your national security prevents you from sharing but it shouldn't stop you from correcting electoral problems.

    Look I know it's against your nature, but centralise something
  • Mar 24, 2014, 09:18 AM
    tomder55
    no need to centralize ... as for prosecutions .... Eric Holder refused to bring charges when the Black Panthers stood at polling places to intimidate voters. J. Christian Adams resigned from his post as a trial attorney for the voting section of the Department of Justice after he was told that the Justice Dept would not be bringing cases 'against black defendants on [behalf] of white victims'.

    He was also told that he should ignore a subpoena from the Civil Rights Commission which still has an ongoing investigation. His charge was confirmed and corroborated by Christopher Coates; the former head of the voting section of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division who had led the original investigation .He compared the Black Panther case to an earlier case from 2006, in which Department of Justice attorneys expressed anger at having to investigate Ike Brown, a black democratic politician in Mississippi accused of discriminating against white voters. Coates testified that the Justice Department's administration's decision to drop the Black Panther Case "was intended to send a direct message to people inside and outside the civil rights division. That message is that the filing of voting cases like the Ike Brown and the NBPP cases would not continue in the Obama administration."
    http://news.yahoo.com/black-panther-...ell-obama.html
  • Mar 24, 2014, 11:02 PM
    paraclete
    Start Agin
    There it is, the "we don't need to change" argument, ok enforce all the laws you have, that should give you an instant economic recovery, oh wait a minute, that needs more taxes to support the growth in the public service or more debt, you won't do that either. How does it feel to be stuck in that cleft stick?. I do know the answer Tom repeal all those laws and start again that should get your polies of their arse
  • Mar 26, 2014, 02:55 AM
    Tuttyd
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    no need to centralize ... as for prosecutions .... Eric Holder refused to bring charges when the Black Panthers stood at polling places to intimidate voters. J. Christian Adams resigned from his post as a trial attorney for the voting section of the Department of Justice after he was told that the Justice Dept would not be bringing cases 'against black defendants on [behalf] of white victims'.

    He was also told that he should ignore a subpoena from the Civil Rights Commission which still has an ongoing investigation. His charge was confirmed and corroborated by Christopher Coates; the former head of the voting section of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division who had led the original investigation .He compared the Black Panther case to an earlier case from 2006, in which Department of Justice attorneys expressed anger at having to investigate Ike Brown, a black democratic politician in Mississippi accused of discriminating against white voters. Coates testified that the Justice Department's administration's decision to drop the Black Panther Case "was intended to send a direct message to people inside and outside the civil rights division. That message is that the filing of voting cases like the Ike Brown and the NBPP cases would not continue in the Obama administration."
    http://news.yahoo.com/black-panther-...ell-obama.html


    Yes, why would you need to centralize when you created a fourth arm of government? Namely, the office of the Emperor.

    The possibilities are endless. Sounds like both parties will be able to make use of this office in the future. The politics of personhood appears to have grown another head.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 03:54 AM
    tomder55
    it is the concern of creating imperial government that is the biggest reason to NOT centralize power.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 04:52 AM
    paraclete
    You already have that form of government, you elect an emperor for a four year term, he has the ability to act without reference to the legislature as he has recently proven, therefore no change is needed, just drop some obsolete forms of government, makes life simplier
  • Mar 26, 2014, 04:58 AM
    talaniman
    Power can shift every two years, at the peoples will, and of course at how much the small band of elites spend.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 05:52 AM
    paraclete
    power shifting doesn't seem to stop one branch acting without the other
  • Mar 26, 2014, 05:53 AM
    smoothy
    That's Unique to Obama... he is after all the Messiah... and the Messiah is above the laws of man.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 06:09 AM
    talaniman
    When one side wants to do NOTHING but what they want, of course they holler when things get worked around them. They have no votes to dominate, but they can slow things down and blame others when nothing get done, doesn't work, or they don't like what does get done. Reasonable people can see beyond all that and that's why the right wing republicans are so low on the totem pole because they hae proven to be incompetent at doing anything, by choice.

    Their agenda is to shrink and destroy government and make it dysfunctional. They are good at it. Too bad they will fail.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 06:13 AM
    smoothy
    Yeah.. the Democrats were big losers in the last election... and they will be even bigger losers the next one... all those obstructionist, socialis and comunist power grabs are backfiring in a big way.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 06:22 AM
    talaniman
    Your memory of the 2012 election has failed you once again.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 07:07 AM
    NeedKarma
    It's always the fault of the muslims... or socialists.. or someone other than my political party.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 07:59 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Your memory of the 2012 election has failed you once again.

    Really? I seem to remember there are other branches of the government than the resident Emporer.

    And I seem to remember fewer seats in them being Democrat than were before the election.
  • Mar 26, 2014, 08:10 AM
    excon
    Hello smoothy:
    Quote:

    Really? I seem to remember there are other branches of the government than the resident Emporer.
    The reason IS, that Republicans CHEAT.

    Yes, the party who wants VOTER ID, is the vote CHEATING party.

    excon

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